Carmen Betterridge is the Director and Principal Psychologist with Suicide Risk Assessment, Australia. Carmen’s early career included counselling and support services to women who had experienced domestic, sexual and childhood violence, transitioning in 2006 to medico-legal psychological assessments and investigations for civil claims associated with occupational injury. In 2014, Carmen launched Suicide Risk Assessment Australia, a training, supervision and consultation service that delivers knowledge, competence and capability to clinicians, non-clinicians and workplaces alike, in the prevention and response to suicide. She is a member of multiple national and international associations, including co-chair in the Suicide and the Workplace special interest group for the International Association of Suicide Prevention. Carmen is a Lecturer in the Masters of Suicidology program, and Senior Researcher with the Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP), Griffith University and co-facilitates training of the Systematic Tailored Assessment for Responding to Suicidality (STARS) Protocol. She has a special interest in psychotherapeutic brief interventions for suicide prevention.
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